Innate Realm Expert

Morning.

Lu Yun got up, ate something casually, and prepared to continue cultivating.

Unexpectedly, just then, his father, Lu Xingwen, suddenly pushed open the door and entered.

"Ling Xue told me that you fainted again yesterday. How are you feeling? Better now?"

Lu Xingwen had refined features and a tall, lean build. Though already forty, he lacked none of the greasiness associated with middle age.

Because he practiced martial arts year-round.

Even standing casually in the room, he exuded a steady, imposing presence, like a mountain. His voice was full and resonant, carrying the air of a household head.

"I'm much better now."

"Thanks..."

"For caring, Dad!"

Lu Yun replied softly.

Come to think of it.

Since transmigrating into this world yesterday, this was the first time he had truly met his nominal father.

According to the memories he had assimilated.

He knew that Lu Xingwen was a genuine peak Innate Realm expert.

Lu Xingwen nodded and said,

"It's good for young people to have drive, but your body has only just started recovering. Don't be too impatient in your cultivation."

For the time being, Lu Yun had no intention of revealing that his body had fully recovered.

He merely nodded obediently and replied,

"Don't worry, Dad!"

Seeing that Lu Yun did not seem to be seriously unwell, Lu Xingwen said nothing more.

After that.

He gave a few more instructions.

Then he left the room to handle other matters at the martial arts hall.

Once he was gone.

Lu Yun let out a long breath inwardly.

After all.

Before a peak Innate Realm expert.

Even if the other man did not release his aura, the pressure bearing down on him was simply immense.

Especially after advancing to the Postnatal Realm, he could feel the gap between them with exceptional clarity.

"I'm still too weak!"

"I have to speed up my cultivation."

He muttered to himself.

More than ten minutes later.

In a relatively secluded open area within the martial arts hall.

Lu Yun stepped forward with his right foot. His body swayed lightly, and he was already dozens of meters away.

At the same time.

His right hand gripped the Dragon-Scale Purple-Gold Saber.

He slashed straight down with the saber.

Faint sounds of wind and thunder rose around him.

Clearly.

The strike contained an extremely terrifying force.

[ Ding! Saber technique experience +1. Congratulations, Host, you triggered a 100x critical hit. Saber technique experience +100! ]

The system prompt rang in his mind, as expected.

"Phew..."

"If I keep improving at yesterday's pace, I'll be able to break through again very soon."

"If everything goes smoothly..."

"I'll definitely become the third Innate Realm martial artist at Heavenly Origin Martial Arts Hall."

Lu Yun thought excitedly.

One had to know...

A major reason Heavenly Origin Martial Arts Hall ranked among Tong City's ten great martial arts halls.

Was that it had two Innate Realm experts overseeing it. The strongest among them was Lu Yun's father, Lu Xingwen.

And the other...

Was Heavenly Origin Martial Arts Hall's deputy hall master, Du Peng, a mid-stage Innate Realm expert.

Of course.

What excited Lu Yun so greatly was not only the joy that came with a breakthrough in cultivation.

It was also that...

According to the Martial Dao Alliance's regulations.

As long as a martial artist advanced to the Innate Realm, all kinds of benefits would rise accordingly.

First, the monthly stipend would leap directly from 20,000 Star Coins for the Postnatal Realm to 100,000 Star Coins.

Second, Innate Realm martial artists would receive many special privileges.

For example.

Every year, they could apply to the Martial Dao Alliance for permission to explore the vast regions beyond humanity's bases.

Such special treatment.

Was something the overwhelming majority could never enjoy.

Especially in the past decade or so, after human cities had been attacked by several beast tides in succession, the Martial Dao Alliance had strictly forbidden ordinary people from leaving the cities without authorization.

However, Innate Realm martial artists were not included in that prohibition.

This was because.

Innate Realm martial artists already counted among humanity's elite. Even if such people ventured into areas inhabited by exotic beasts, they would be fully capable of protecting themselves as long as they did not encounter a beast above three-star rank.

"Before..."

"The Innate Realm experts I once regarded as unreachable."

"I'll soon reach that level too."

Lu Yun felt that.

He was drawing ever closer to the final threshold of the Innate Realm.

And the system's crisp, pleasant prompts continued ringing through his mind.

[ Ding! Saber technique proficiency +1. Congratulations, Host, you triggered a 100x critical hit. Saber technique proficiency +100! ]

[ Ding! Saber technique proficiency +1. Congratulations, Host, you triggered a 100x critical hit. Saber technique proficiency +100! ]

[ Ding! Saber technique proficiency +1. Congratulations, Host, you triggered a 100x critical hit. Saber technique proficiency +100! ]

When he...

Reached the final move.

Azure Dragon Emerges from Water.

Fallen leaves scattered across the ground, and grit whirled through the air.

Then came a sharp crack!

Not far away.

A strange boulder roughly seven or eight meters tall was instantly cleaved in two.

At that moment.

A luminous interface popped up before his eyes again:

Host: Lu Yun

System Stage One Activated: 100x Critical Hit Amplification

Martial Skill: Thousand Mountains Saber Technique (lv7 100%)

Strength Level: Early Innate Realm

"Hiss..."

"Holy shit!"

"I actually... really... broke through to the Innate Realm?!"

Although he had anticipated it.

When the actual data appeared in his mind, Lu Yun still felt somewhat dizzy.

In just two short hours.

He had actually...

Broken through another realm so easily!

And.

He had directly crossed an entire major realm.

A realm that others could only attain after enduring countless hardships and exhausting all their efforts.

He had achieved it so casually, as easily as eating and drinking.

Without the slightest effort.

If...

He continued developing at this terrifying pace.

It probably would not be long.

Before the title of Heavenly Origin Martial Arts Hall's strongest expert changed hands.

Most exciting of all...

He still had three months.

Before he turned sixteen.

Advancing to become an Innate Realm martial artist at such an age.

Since Sky Net Star's spiritual energy revival.

No one besides Tang Maoyan, the current chief leader of the Martial Dao Alliance.

Had ever succeeded in doing so.

Moreover.

Even the extraordinarily talented Tang Maoyan.

Had only finally advanced after turning sixteen.

"Hahaha!"

"The ancients truly did not deceive me!"

"With the system in hand, the world is mine!"

Lu Yun waved his arms excitedly.

After advancing to become an Innate Realm martial artist.

He could now freely mobilize the vast spiritual power within his body, something utterly incomparable to his time in the Postnatal Realm.

With such terrifying cultivation speed, he was absolutely confident that he could rise to an even higher level.

Next.

As long as he could break through to the Primordial Astral Realm.

Then.

If he encountered that assassin from the other day again.

He would be absolutely certain of capturing the assassin alive.

As for the martial artist assessment two days from now, there would no longer be any suspense at all. The only question was how great a sensation it would cause.

Thinking of this.

Lu Yun could not help becoming a little dazed himself.

His cultivation speed truly was a little too frightening.

By then.

Perhaps...

It would not merely be little Tong City.

Even all of Sky Net Star would boil over because of it.